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TIL The National City Bank Of New York Convinced The US Government to Invade Haiti in 1909

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QAKL TIL The last words of James Bond author Ian Fleming were an apology to his ambulance drivers for having inconvenienced them, saying “I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don’t know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days.”
6l9X TIL: all female placental mammals menstruate, but only female humans, bats, elephant shrews and some primate species bleed, which is called overt menstruation. Other mammals completely reabsorb the endometrium in what is known as covert or ‘true’ menstruation.
M7Nda TIL Trota of Salerno was a 12th century female medical practitioner whose wrote on a variety of topics including gynecology and cosmetics, and her writing were used by doctors for centuries
16aa8 TIL naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen by metabolizing fructose instead of glucose.
gdgL TIL that in 1985, 2 men broke into Fran Drescher’s home and one of them raped Fran and her friend and gunpoint while Fran’s husband was tied up and forced to watch the ordeal.